The Bureau of Dreams to be Continued by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

The Bureau of Dreams to be Continued

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returned and he ran to the front door and opened it to the soft morning light.

He thought he heard a cowbell, but didn’t see the cows or the one who rang. He walked down the garden path to discover that it led him back where he had started; the front door. Feeling dizzy, he got off the path, squashing a few dandelions in the process.

He approached two people who were apparently trying to do something to or with a willow, which had little to say in the matter. They had nametags pinned to their shirt pockets which said Emmanuel Tweak; PhD Forestry and Raashan Blind, PhD Physics. As he felt a need to protect his property, he attempted to engage the two interlopers in a polite conversation, which would basically say; “Get the hell off my property.” However the two with the tag things next to their nerd packs paid him no mind and continued with their own heated discussion. Apparently they were trying to measure the tree and were debating the proper way to do that. Emmanuel insisted that the roots should count in the measurement and offered a plan derived from other willow excavations to estimate their length. Raashan was adamantly opposed to that, taking the position that “If it is not seen it is not there.” He was amenable to digging up the willow to establish that indeed the tree did have roots, but Emmanuel had a problem with that saying that it would probably kill the tree.